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Chad: l'armée reprend le contrôle de la prison d’Abéché après une mutinerie
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Africa
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Chad
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Africa
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Cameroon
Yesterday a riot was reported in Kondengui prison in Yaoundé the Cameroonian capital. According to reports, detained armed separatists from the Anglophone regions and opposition members took possession of the prison yard to denounce overcrowding, judicial delays and deplorable conditions.
Mauritania: Nouakchott: mutinerie à la prison pour femmes
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Africa
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Mauritania
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Algeria: mutinerie à la prison de Laghouat
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Algeria
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Chad: un mort et cinq blessés dans une tentative d'évasion
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Chad
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Asia
Europe
Material conditions
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Russia
Eight inmates in Russia’s Far Eastern Sakha-Yakutia region have launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the prison where they are being held, the head of a regional human monitoring group says.
Africa
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South Sudan
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Congo - Kinshasa
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South America
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Venezuela
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South America
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Venezuela
Riot after alleged torture casts shadow over campaign of Nicolás Maduro before Sunday’s vote
South America
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Brazil
A number of inmates at a jail in the northern Brazilian city of Belem have died during an attempted mass breakout.
Central America and the Caribbean
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Mexico
VERACRUZ, Mexico — Six police officers died on Sunday from smoke inhalation after prisoners started a fire while resisting an effort to transfer dangerous inmates out of a prison in Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, the authorities said.